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TeenThe Riddle of the SandsA bored Foreign Office clerk is invited to the Baltic for duck-shooting and finds a scrubby yacht, no paid hand, and no explanations.Complete · 266 chapters · ~13 hr 20 min · About 13 hr 20 min totalBy netfable official

TeenThe Woman in WhiteA drawing master walks the Finchley Road at midnight and a woman dressed entirely in white puts her hand on his shoulder.Complete · 136 chapters · ~8 hr 50 min · About 8 hr 50 min totalBy netfable official

TeenThe LodgerA soft-spoken gentleman takes the upstairs rooms, pays a month in advance, and asks only that his bag never be touched.Complete · 113 chapters · ~5 hr 25 min · About 5 hr 25 min totalBy netfable official

TeenThe Last Chronicle of BarsetYou are Josiah Crawley, a poor Hogglestock curate who cannot say how a twenty-pound cheque came into his hand.Ongoing · 84 chapters · ~3 hr 10 min · About 3 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureMary BartonManchester in the hungry forties: the mills stand quiet, fever fills the cellars, and the masters stay behind their curtains.Complete · 76 chapters · ~4 hr 40 min · About 4 hr 40 min totalBy netfable official

MatureRomolaYou are Tito Melema, and Florence lets you live on delay while your debts are sewn into a belt of gems.Ongoing · 65 chapters · ~2 hr 50 min · About 2 hr 50 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureOur Mutual FriendYou are Lizzie Hexam, rowing your father's boat down a night Thames while he hooks what the tide delivers.Ongoing · 64 chapters · ~3 hr 20 min · About 3 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureBarnaby RudgeYou are Barnaby Rudge, and your raven Grip cries what the parish keeps quiet.Ongoing · 60 chapters · ~2 hr 55 min · About 2 hr 55 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenOrley FarmYou are Lady Mason, and the codicil that gave your son Orley Farm was dated a Thursday you remember better than anyone alive.Ongoing · 60 chapters · ~2 hr 45 min · About 2 hr 45 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureTess of the d'UrbervillesYou play Tess Durbeyfield, the one red ribbon in a Marlott May dance, sent by your father's borrowed grandeur to claim kin with the wrong family.Ongoing · 59 chapters · ~2 hr 45 min · About 2 hr 45 min published so farBy netfable official

18+The Ghost BrideComplete · 51 chapters · ~3 hr 55 min · About 3 hr 55 min totalBy Elodie Dawson

TeenArmadaleYou are Allan Armadale, a candid young boat-builder whose friend Ozias Midwinter is the third man your dead father's dream warns against.Ongoing · 50 chapters · ~2 hr 20 min · About 2 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe House by the Church-YardYou play Doctor Walsingham, rector of Chapelizod, summoned by an unsigned letter to a stormy midnight burial of a lead coffin marked only R.Ongoing · 48 chapters · ~2 hr 35 min · About 2 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

18+Dangerous PatientComplete · 45 chapters · ~2 hr 35 min · About 2 hr 35 min totalBy Alden Blake

18+Match PointComplete · 45 chapters · ~4 hr 30 min · About 4 hr 30 min totalBy Gemma Sinclair

MatureThe MoonstoneA diamond looted from an Indian shrine is left to a girl as a birthday present by an uncle who intended it as a curse.Complete · 42 chapters · ~2 hr 30 min · About 2 hr 30 min totalBy netfable official

TeenMalcolmYou are Barbara Catanach, Portlossie's midwife, and the birthmark you read on dead Grizel Campbell makes a fisher lad a marquis.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~2 hr 15 min · About 2 hr 15 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe CryptogramYou are General Pomeroy, an old soldier offering your daughter's fortune to save ruined Chetwynde Castle and its heir, Guy, for a betrothal.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~1 hr 50 min · About 1 hr 50 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Three BrothersYou are Laurence Renton, father of three sons, and your sister Lydia's challenge on a river walk sends you to dictate a secret will.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~2 hr 25 min · About 2 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenUnder False PretencesYou are Edward Luttrell, whose wife Margaret wakes from fever in an Italian villa and swears the baby handed back to her is not her Brian.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~2 hr 45 min · About 2 hr 45 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureFor the Term of His Natural LifeYou play a son disowned in one night, convicted under the name Rufus Dawes.Ongoing · 36 chapters · ~2 hr 10 min · About 2 hr 10 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Leavenworth CaseYou are Mr Raymond, a young lawyer called to the Leavenworth mansion after its owner is found shot dead in his own locked library, a page freshly missing from the desk where he had been working.Ongoing · 34 chapters · ~1 hr 35 min · About 1 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureWylder's HandYou are Charlie de Cresseron, called to Brandon Hall by an old schoolfellow, Mark Wylder, to advise him through the marriage settlement binding him to Dorcas Brandon.Ongoing · 34 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCaleb WilliamsYou are Caleb Williams, newly orphaned and hired as secretary to the melancholy Mr Falkland for your reading, not your birth.Ongoing · 32 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureCover StoryYou match with Remi, a lifeguard you only meant to grill about the Oscar Stone murder investigation, not date.Complete · 31 chapters · ~1 hr 55 min · About 1 hr 55 min totalBy June Parker

MatureThe Long Way HomeHe is proud of the cab, which he worked hard to buy, and jokes that his psychic powers are off today.Complete · 31 chapters · ~1 hr 55 min · About 1 hr 55 min totalBy Tobias Flynn

MatureOut of OfficeShe offers to help you pick an outfit, sends a picture of her own, and mentions that she is the heart and soul of the company.Complete · 31 chapters · ~2 hr 10 min · About 2 hr 10 min totalBy Olive Ashton

MatureCheckmateYou are Richard Arden, weighing whether Mr.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 35 min · About 1 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureHenry DunbarYou are Sampson, the only clerk who can identify Henry Dunbar after his thirty-five years in India, and the brother of Joseph Wilmot, the man Henry led into forgery and let take the blame alone.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 35 min · About 1 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenRodney StoneYou are Roddy, working the forge with Boy Jim and his uncle Champion Harrison when a lord's coach passes too fast and too close, and the guinea tossed as apology lands refused in the mud.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 40 min · About 1 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Law and the LadyYou are Valeria, married this morning to a man who is already keeping something from you.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~2 hr 5 min · About 2 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Mysterious Affair at StylesAn old lady dies convulsing behind a bolted bedroom door, midway between a new will and a new husband.Complete · 30 chapters · ~2 hr 15 min · About 2 hr 15 min totalBy netfable official

MatureThe Mystery of the SeaBack in Cruden Bay, you catch a vision no one else sees: a man ahead of his family carrying a child's coffin, an hour before that child drowns.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenUncle SilasYou play Maud Ruthyn, watching your father conduct furtive, unexplained business with a visiting religious associate at Knowl.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 45 min · About 1 hr 45 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureWomen in LoveYou are Ursula Brangwen, a schoolteacher weighing whether marriage is an experience worth having, while your sister Gudrun argues it might be a prison instead.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 45 min · About 1 hr 45 min published so farBy netfable official

18+SpotlessComplete · 29 chapters · ~2 hr · About 2 hr totalBy Esme Hollis

MatureLady Audley's SecretYou are Robert Audley, and your old friend George Talboys arrives from the Australian goldfields to find a newspaper announcing his wife's death days before he could reach her.Ongoing · 26 chapters · ~1 hr · About 1 hr published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Hound of the BaskervillesSir Charles Baskerville is found dead on his own grounds, his face changed, with the prints of an enormous hound nearby.Complete · 26 chapters · ~1 hr 50 min · About 1 hr 50 min totalBy netfable official

TeenHide and SeekYou are Zack Thorpe, nineteen, out of patience with your father's Sunday lecture and locked-door discipline.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 5 min · About 1 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

18+Reasonable DoubtComplete · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min totalBy Flora Avery

TeenThe Dead SecretYou play Rosamond Treverton, marrying blind Leonard Frankland in a hushed dawn ceremony your father can barely bring himself to attend.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~56 min · About 56 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Last of the MortimersYou are Milly Mortimer, sister to ailing Sarah, watching the family solicitor Mr Cresswell open a search for an heir before the Mortimer line ends with the two of you.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~1 hr 15 min · About 1 hr 15 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Romance of the ForestYou are Adeline, pushed at gunpoint from a locked room into the carriage of a stranger, Pierre de la Motte, who cannot promise safety but offers more than your keepers did.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~48 min · About 48 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Circular StaircaseA spinster of settled habits takes a country house for the summer, and by the second night a man has been shot at the foot of the stairs.Complete · 23 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min totalBy netfable official

TeenThe Mystery of the Yellow RoomA woman is attacked in a laboratory annexe locked from the inside, with barred windows and no exit anyone can find.Complete · 20 chapters · ~1 hr 20 min · About 1 hr 20 min totalBy netfable official

TeenThe Secret GardenCholera empties a bungalow in India and leaves one child alive inside it, nobody's favourite and nobody's responsibility.Complete · 20 chapters · ~1 hr 15 min · About 1 hr 15 min totalBy netfable official

MatureMy Girlfriend Tessa LinHousekeeping still turns down the beds on a floor where no one has slept in eight days, because nobody has authorized the checkout.Complete · 18 chapters · ~1 hr 35 min · About 1 hr 35 min totalBy netfable official

18+PoolsideComplete · 18 chapters · ~1 hr 15 min · About 1 hr 15 min totalBy Jade Stone

MatureWhat the Archive KeptHelen brings the blue archive box through the rain the week her retirement releases it, and sets it on the clear half of your desk.Complete · 16 chapters · ~1 hr 15 min · About 1 hr 15 min totalBy netfable official

MatureOff the RecordHe is on the app to interview locals without having to beat the pavement, which he admits fairly early on.Complete · 15 chapters · ~39 min · About 39 min totalBy Sasha Ashford

18+Sworn InComplete · 15 chapters · ~1 hr 5 min · About 1 hr 5 min totalBy Nathan Aldridge

MatureDead to the WorldHe opens with a line about spreadsheets and spreading sheets, which is the last uncomplicated thing that happens.Complete · 12 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min totalBy Simon Corbin

18+Hell's ConsortComplete · 12 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min totalBy Darcy Willow

TeenA Life SentenceYou are Jenny Westwood, eleven years old beneath the gallery, while a scrap of cloth and a gun convict your father Andrew of Sydney Vane's murder.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureA Study in ScarletYou return from the Afghan campaign thin, wounded, and low on money for a London hotel.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCatrionaYou are David Balfour, two days removed from rags and a murder charge, now rich and still trying to clear James Stewart's name in the Appin affair.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureDead Men Tell No TalesYou are Mr. Cole, sailing home from the Australian goldfields aboard the Lady Jermyn with Eva Denison and her father.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenDeephavenYou are Nelly, and your friend Kate Lancaster has inherited a house on the Maine coast — reason enough, she says, to keep it themselves for the summer.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~21 min · About 21 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureFrom Whose BourneYou play Will Brenton, dead of poison on Christmas Eve before your wife Alice can reach your bedside, guided into the afterlife by a spirit named Ferris who teaches you to walk through walls and listen where the living think no one can hear.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenHuntingtowerNewly retired, you are Dickson McCunn, on a walking tour meant to prove you are not yet old.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

MaturePeccaviYou play the vicar of Long Stow, burying Molly Musk under an unmarked coffin plate while her father Jasper stands rigid at the grave.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenPoor Miss FinchYou play Madame Pratolungo, freshly hired as companion to Lucilla Finch, a blind young woman who reads new faces with her fingertips and cannot bear the color black.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenSilas MarnerYou play Silas Marner, a weaver trusted to sit alone through the night with a dying deacon and the chapel's cash box.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe American BaronYou are an American descending the Simplon when Minnie Fay claims the first sled and an avalanche takes it into the Gorge of Gondo.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~29 min · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Bag of DiamondsYou are John Whyley, a night-beat constable who sees two men carry a limp companion from Dr Chartley's fog-bound surgery.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Black ArrowYou are Dick Shelton, called by Tunstall Hamlet's alarm bell to muster for your guardian Sir Daniel, though old archer Nicholas Appleyard warns you to learn which side is paying before you choose loyalty.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Chase of the Golden PlateYou are Hatch, a reporter covering Stuyvesant Randolph's masked ball, where a costumed 'burglar' with a revolver escapes with eleven gold pieces and a masked Girl of the West.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Crime and the CriminalYou are Thomas Tennant, riding the Sunday night train to Victoria, when Ellen Howth blocks your way to confront you about a past your wife Lucy has never heard of.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Dash for KhartoumYou are John Humphreys, an Agra merchant whose wife Jane will not say which of the two infants she nursed is your son.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Datchet DiamondsYou play Cyril Paxton, hiding stock losses from your fiancee Daisy Strong when a chance meeting with another man on Brighton pier turns into a real quarrel.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Diamond MasterYou play Harry Latham, a Fifth Avenue jeweler whose morning post brings an unregistered diamond finer than anything in the vault.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~20 min · About 20 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Floating Light of the Goodwin SandsYou are Mr Larks, a traveller asking after a fish merchant named Jones at Ramsgate, where the Gull lightship burns over the Goodwin Sands.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Mystery of the Green RayA seaside vigil for a green flash is unsettled by a second light offshore and a fiancée's unexplained nightly waking.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Invisible ManYou are Mrs Hall, landlady of the Coach and Horses, and your guest has paid two sovereigns to keep his face, his bottles and his secret to himself.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Jewel of Seven StarsYou play Malcolm Ross, roused before dawn by a message from Margaret Trelawny: someone has tried to murder her father in a locked, bolted room surrounded by Egyptian relics.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Legacy of CainYou are Eunice Gracedieu, one of two sisters raised as twins who have never been told which of you is older, or why.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Living LinkYou are Edith Dalton, and a black-edged letter says your father died at Hobart Town before you could meet him.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Lovels of ArdenYou are Clarissa Lovel, eighteen, on the night train home to a gray Yorkshire house that never wrote.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Murder of DeliciaYou are Delicia Vaughan, a novelist whose earnings keep the house you share with your husband, Wilfred.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Mystery of a Hansom CabYou are Detective Gorby, called out near two in the morning when a hansom brings a dead passenger into the St Kilda station, chloroformed by a stranger the driver watched vanish into the dark.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Mystery of CloomberYou are John West, moved with your father and sister Esther to a remote Wigtownshire agency after his scholarship outpaced his rent.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~20 min · About 20 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Shadow of the RopeYou are Rachel Minchin, leaving a marriage, when your husband is found shot in his study.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Sign of the FourYou are Watson, watching Holmes reach for the cocaine again, when a client arrives with a pearl that has come in the post every year for six years.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Star RoverConvicted of a murder you say you did not commit, and blamed for hiding dynamite you never touched, you are Professor Darrell Standing, laced into the canvas jacket Warden Atherton uses to make silence unbearable.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Summit House MysteryRuined by speculation, and freshly rejected by a wife who wants only silence and distance, you are Neil Durgan, climbing Deer Mountain to a played-out mica claim and lodging with the Smith sisters at Summit House.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Thousandth WomanAboard a liner in mid-Atlantic, you wake shouting that Henry Craven, the man whose fraud ruined your father and sent an innocent man to prison in his place, is dead, and your cabin-mate Hilton Toye notes the exact minute.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Three HostagesYou are Richard Hannay, settled into fatherhood and Parliament, until Macgillivray brings a nursery rhyme sent to three families whose children vanished willingly.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Three ImpostorsYou are Dyson, a London idler with unfinished manuscripts and a taste for the marvelous, until Charles Phillipps turns years of friendly argument into evidence: a worn gold coin found on the pavement, and a spectacled young man in the fog begging you not to let three strangers see it.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~20 min · About 20 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWhosoever Shall OffendYou are Marcello's mother, and three quiet years of marriage to Folco Corbario have given you no cause to doubt him.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWyllard's WeirdYou are Dr. Menheniot, the one passenger who saw the pale woman on the footboard before she fell from the viaduct.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~30 min · About 30 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenExecutorThe funeral party had scarcely left when John Brown held the sealed scrap to the window.Preview · 1 chapter · ~7 min · About 7 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenLittle Miss JoyPatience Harrison watched the sleeping rows at four in the morning, waiting for a husband who had vanished and a son who had fled after a quarrel.Preview · 1 chapter · ~5 min · About 5 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Missing ShipFor days the Ouzel Galley lay motionless under a tropical sun, with fever in the cabins and only the yards creaking above the glassy Atlantic.Preview · 1 chapter · ~6 min · About 6 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Queen of the IsleCampbell's Isle lies six miles from the mainland, two miles of forest and pasture ringed by Atlantic water and winter silence.Preview · 1 chapter · ~5 min · About 5 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a WeekRain and sleet scour Fifth Avenue while Carl Walraven sits in a ruby-and-gold chamber, smoking before his mother's long-awaited ball.Preview · 1 chapter · ~5 min · About 5 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureWhat's Bred in the BoneElma reaches the station after her pony objects to the downhill road, and Old Matthews catches the train before it pulls away.Preview · 1 chapter · ~5 min · About 5 min published so farBy netfable official

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